Paul Gilding: The Earth is full
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http://www.ted.com Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that's equal parts terrifying and, oddly, hopeful. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to http://support.ted.com
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Put the Quiverfull into the gas chambers and give tax breaks to child free and LGBT people worldwide, kill pro life assholes and ban Catholic propaganda and world would be much closer to the solution.
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We all agree that every person ever born deserves a fair shot at a happy, healthy life. We all need to feel a sense of belonging, purpose, and worth with respect to the rest of society. Our big brains have evolved love, empathy, and compassion and that's a beautiful thing. Given our current level of awareness, knowledge and technology; We have the responsibility to drastically reduce the birth rate of human beings on this planet and bring our population down to a sustainable level where everyone can feel that sense of purpose without feeling they are exploiting others. We in the western world have been spoiled. We have grown accustomed to a comparatively lavish and gluttonous level of consumption that the rest of the world now sees thanks to globalization and the internet. Most people in the rest of the world wants in some ways what we have, and many are working very hard to get it. Unfortunately, our planet does not have the resources for all the people inhabiting her to live like Americans. In order for everyone who lives off of the limited resources we have here to have a comfortable, fulfilling, free, content existence; there needs to be much fewer individuals competing for said resources while simultaneously adapting ourselves to be content with much simpler lives.
My wheels are spinning on the best ways to accomplish this. I'm not having kids, trying not to waste or consume more than I need, and trying to live simply. I try to encourage others to do the same. I believe in loving life and all humans, not just your own "kind". I believe not making more humans is the best way to make life more convivial for every other human on a crowded, resource limited, technologically advanced and competitive world. I believe in economically incentivizing people not to have children by taxing having them. I believe in stopping the process of incentivizing people to have children economically, religiously, and culturally. I'm brainstorming a unified, resource based global society (instead of the current polarized, economic based one) where all educated and rational people (I know that's subjective and the tricky part!) vote democratically on who should be allowed to have a child. Each region maintaining a sustainable quota in line with global health. Is this crazy? I would love to hear ideas! Especially about how to get there from here! -
This presenter, like many presenters, is well aware that he would not have a platform unless he ended with a positive ending. This is what most people have come to expect and is the kind of pitch they crave.
This presentation was made almost five years ago and we remain on pretty much the same trajectory as was taking place then. No mention was made about passing thresholds beyond which no recovery is possible. That likely happened over a decade ago and almost no-one is willing to admit to that. The massive release in CO2, from our fossil fuel use, continues and we are now seeing the consequences of much of the dumping that took place around 40 years ago. There is no possibility of a turn-around now. The current predictions of recovery are now based upon assumptions that within a decade an unprecedented new technology will be developed and deployed on a massive scale to drain the excess CO2 out of the Earth's atmosphere. This is magical thinking from a species under great stress. -
And yet gays can't have children is still one of the reasons homphobics use.
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re-set is imminent.
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This is nonsense, disproven. People have been claiming the sky is falling since the 1800s and their predictions about overpopulation never come true. These people do not factor in human ingenuity, and are working only to advance the interests of the globalist elite who want the state to regulate reproduction. Some even advocate sterilization and genocide.
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the purge!!!!! thats how we fix this issue
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People will wake up when "money" does not fix your problems..........Mad Max will happen for maybe 2 to 5 years until disease takes the population.
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look up the pacific garbage dump they say it is the size of the USA killing marine life all that plastic sludge being thrown into the ocean
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We wrote a song called "Rise" inspired by this TED Talk. We sent it to Paul Gilding and he said: I'm honoured and delighted it motivated you! Here's a link to the song. https://soundcloud.com/this-human-condition/rise
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He's a NWO propaganda shill mixing truth with wholesale bullshit. Yes, our population must collapse. No, CO2 emissions has much to do with it. Climate change is what the earth does, i.e., earth's climate is never stable. Blaming it on CO2 is just another Jew lie.
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Couldn't finish because of the mouth noises.
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What an idiot.
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I thought he was going to say "The planet will be fine, the people are fucked" lol
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I fucking hate capitalists and consumerism!!
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If you look at the likes and dislikes to this speech, about one in four viewers do not like it, meaning they disagree with Paul Gilding. I wonder what their exit plan is when the economy collapses totally, and human civilization begins to crumble, then disappears completely. A needlessly growing economy and human over-population will be the end of our species. Cockroaches will indeed rule the planet.
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A good talk but not so helpful. :)
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I hate it how he doesn't even tell what resource is actually going to run out? Show those studies and stop fear mongering. I want to hear about what is really going on.
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Craftchick was here
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